From Jeff Goodman ...
https://watchstadium.com/transferri...llenge-for-most-mid-major-hoopers-04-13-2020/
https://watchstadium.com/transferri...llenge-for-most-mid-major-hoopers-04-13-2020/
A few numbers behind our theory of "transferring up"
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Or Ryan Taylor. He led his conference in scoring before transferring, but seemed lost at NU.
Jared Swopshire was a good player for us and I would rate that transfer successful, even if the season wasn't. But coming from Louisville would certainly be a case of "transferring down."
Yeah, there's a level at which frosh perform that signals they belong elsewhere. The kid at Michigan last year...Ivanauskas...went pro.
For Audige it was clear he could play a level above the CAA.
Will he do in the Big Ten what he did in the CAA? No idea. I really like his handle....long arms, big mits...like his D....like that he easily gets above the rim...and seems to be able to get to the rim pretty easily.
There’s always a lot to like, and the CAA is tougher than the AAU circuit, of course. But recruiting ranks tell us Beran should’ve lit it up, and Boo should’ve have looked in February like he did in November. (And sometimes he did, and often he didn’t.) We simply don’t know.
The nice thing is that Audige is being relied on to be a role player. It’s not like Taylor, who was saddled with an expectation that he’d be a key threat, something he wasn’t made for at the B1G level.
Anyway, OP is very interesting, with lots of good data.
I know there's been a lot of Ivanauskas talk on the board, but you're referring to Ignas Brazdeikis at Michigan.